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From: myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: Grenada rescue & weakness
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 10:03:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 10:03:05 1984
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> One of the medical students who was "rescued" in Grenada a year ago was on our
> campus last week, too.  I heard him speak and wasn't much impressed.  If you
> ask me, the Republicans have put on much more exciting rallies.
> 
> The fact is, these Grenadian invasion celebrations were nothing but another
> campaign effort by our friends of the far right.  Though supposedly non-
> partisan, they were funded by various conservative foundations with decidedly
> partisan ties (the principal backer shares its offices with the Heritage
> Foundation) and the local hosts on campus were student Republican groups.
> Fortunately the rally at UT, at least, backfired -- three fourths of the crowd
> that turned out were there to condemn the invasion, not celebrate it.  When
> the Young Republicans started handing out flags, they were enthusiastically
> hoisted into the air atop signs saying "No More Grenadas" and "U.S. Out of
> Central America."
> 
> --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
> --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle

The "celebration" turned out much the same way here at UWisc.  Though touted
as a non-partisan event, the head of the national organization sponsoring it
is the national head of the College Republicans, and the local organizing
team was led by the local president of the College Republicans (Nick Furman).

Grenadian medical students, like folks anywhere, all have their own political
agendas.  I recall seeing reports in the New York Times last year from
students who felt more danger from the invasion.

We should also remember that the airport was reopened the day of the invasion,
an American ex-diplomat left the island by plane that day, and that it was the
surrounding islands which were refusing to send planes on to Grenada.

Jeff Myers